So popular was the craze for composition that formal and informal poetic competitions were common among the aristocracy; careers and even love affairs depended on one's skill at versification.
That tropes, in spite of their simplicity, can play the role of states of affairs, depends on the fact that universals combine two theoretical roles, only one of which is fulfilled by tropes.
Its reunion shows can be prickly affairs, depending on whether Stevie and Lindsey are on amenable terms or only barely able to share airspace.
In the case of assertion, the speaker intends that her utterance counts as an undertaking that p represents an actual state of affairs, depending on the constitutive rule (see next subsection).
The band's concerts could be hit-or-miss affairs, depending on your tolerance for noodling.
There is nothing in our intuitive notion of states of affairs that justifies the assumption that states of affairs depend for their unity on the existence of a language in which they are described.
What originally troubled me is that the decision to aggressively move forward on the Clemens-Brian McNamee affair depends on who wants to press the case.
He knows he can't simply do what he wants, however, and, as the young golfer departs and Marly takes up with the landscape designer, their affair depends on their both feeling a little defeated.
Friendships, flirtations, even love affairs depend, like magic tricks, on a constant exchange of incomplete but tantalizing information.
The conduct of commerce, affairs of state, military actions, and personal affairs all depend on the existence of generally accepted means of authenticating identity, authority, ownership, license, signature, notarization, date of action, receipt, and so on.
